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The Peer Education Project
The Peer Education Project is a school-based programme that aims to give young people the skills and knowledge they need to safeguard their mental health, and that of their peers (同龄人). By training older pupils to deliver mental health lessons to younger students, we intend to include the programme in the school course as a key source of support to young people experiencing mental health problem.
Why is peer education helpful?
·Young people always turn a deaf ear to adults and are more willing to listen to their schoolmates.
·Young people may feel more comfortable asking questions of their fellows.
·Peer-delivered programmes can provide accessible role-models and advisers.
·The Peer Education Project uses existing social networks to exercise influence and maintain the influence beyond the classroom.
What does the project teach?
·It introduces mental health as something that we all have, like physical health.
·It encourages students to think about ways to stay well, how to seek help and support friends.
·It introduces some common wrong opinions about mental health, and deals with the discrimination (歧视) against people with mental problems.
Our new PEP platform
The PEP platform is designed to be a one-stop shop for The Peer Education Project. Register now to access the resources you will need to introduce mental health into your school course.
Contact us
We are currently working to bring the project to more schools. Call or email us if you’d like to take part, or to find out more about what’s involved.
21. What’s the purpose of The Peer Education Project?
A. Give lessons to older pupils. B. Help the young with their mental health.
C. Teach skills and knowledge of study. D. Provide key support to schools.
22. Why is the project beneficial?
A. It creates useful social networks.
B. It hires professional advisers to help.
C. It helps young people communicate with their parents.
D. It helps the young communicate with their fellows.
23. To know more about the project, you can _______________.
A. register now B. pay a visit in person
C. make a phone call D. send a short message
B
A few years ago, I stood in a small classroom just outside of New York City, watching a high schooler named Serena Stevenson answer math questions. An instructor read out numbers — 74,470, 70,809, 98,402 — and Stevenson added them in her head. For each question, she closed her eyes, and then the fingers of her right hand began to move. She answered most of the problems correctly.
The key to her success was an ancient technology called the abacus (算盘). Stevenson used a practice called “mental abacus”, imagining the abacus in her mind and then using her fingers to work through the problems.
From watching Stevenson, I knew that gaining skill at the abacus was more than a matter of counting beads (珠子), so I decided to sign up for an abacus course with my two daughters to see if we could also improve our math skills. I was one of the many who had some math doubts and I felt a touch of fear. My typical solution was avoidance, and if I had to calculate something like a percentage change, I would go online.
Then after a few abacus classes and a good amount of practice, math seemed a little less frightening. I didn’t become Euclid, the founder of geometry (几何学). But the practice brought my numerical fears down. This is a time-tested power of the abacus. Confidence grows easily in the device, and abacus students are less likely to be nervous about an upcoming math test, according to one study. Part of the reason, it seems, is that practice and outcomes appear to move in step.
My kids gained much as well. My youngest daughter could work out those math problems that once baffled her, while my older child brought her abacus to school to show it to her classmates and teacher. These were just small successes for them, but that was how they finally developed confidence.
24. What is the main purpose of the first paragraph?
A. To prove the difficulty of math.
B. To introduce the topic of the abacus.
C. To show the high intelligence of Stevenson.
D. To stress the importance of abacus learning.
25. What do we know about the author from paragraph 3?
A. He had a close relationship with kids.
B. He regarded math as useful.
C. He was good at computer.
D. He was weak in math.
26. What does the author realize from his learning experience?
A. Practice makes perfect.
B. It’s never too late to learn.
C. Faith can move mountains.
D. Knowledge starts with practice.
27. What does the underlined word “baffled” in the last paragraph mean?
A. Bored. B. Inspired.
C. Interested. D. Defeated.
